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Liberia: Outgoing US Special Advisor Urges Liberia to Move Towards “Trade Not Aid” By Cleaning Up Corruption and Investing in Electricity and Multi-User Rail

In a brief visit, Sarah Morgenthau, outgoing US President Joe Biden’s Special Representative for the Office of Commercial and Business Affairs, pressed the Liberian government to urgently improve its investment environment so the US-Liberia relationship can move more quickly to one based on investment by American companies rather than aid from the US taxpayer….

Anthony Stephens
FrontPage Africa

Liberia: New War Crimes Court Office Head Says He is Assured of President Boakai’s Commitment to Seeing Justice Done Though Little Funding Has Been Made Available

It’s been just one month on the job for Dr. Jallah Allen Barbu, as the country’s second head of Liberia’s Office for the War and Economics Crimes Court….

Anthony Stephens
FrontPage Africa

Liberia: How Many Warlords Have to Be Tried to Bring Justice? That’s the Question Facing Liberia’s Future War Crimes Court

Justice activists are adamant that justice for atrocities committed during Liberia’s civil conflicts since 1979 is essential to entrenching the rule of law and ending a sense of impunity that has thrived in the country. But how many people need to face justice for those benefits to be delivered?…

Anthony Stephens
FrontPage Africa

Liberia: Four Months After U.S. Downgrade, Amid Warning of Cut in Aid, Liberian Gov. Loses Human Trafficking Case, Prosecutors Claim Jurors Didn’t Understand the Crime

Liberia has lost a human trafficking case, four months after being downgraded to tier 2 watchlist in the 2024 annual U.S. government’s Trafficking in Persons report, amid warning by U.S. officials of a cut in “nonessential aid” if the country continues to underwhelming perform in tackling the issue….

Anthony Stephens
FrontPage Africa

Liberia: Lawyers for Lutheran Church Massacre Survivors Describe Ecowas Court Ruling Against Them as “Disappointing”

Lawyers for victims of the 1990 St. Peter’s Lutheran Church massacre by Armed Forces of Liberia troops under the rule of then-president Samuel Doe, have described this month’s ruling by the Ecowas Community Court of Justice against their clients as “disappointing.”…

Anthony Stephens
FrontPage Africa

Liberia: Dr. Jallah Barbu Pledges to Work with Everyone “to Address Impunity at Highest Level” as Head of Office of War and Economic Crime Courts

Dr. Jallah Allen Barbu, a former presidential candidate and dean of the Louis Arthur Grimes School of Law of the University of Liberia, has pledged to work with everyone as the new Executive Director of the Office of War and Economic Crimes Courts….

Anthony Stephens
FrontPage Africa

Liberia: US War Crimes Ambassador Pledges Support for New War Crimes Court Head on Eve of US Election Which Could Decide Future of the Court

Key US officials – Beth Van Schaack, Ambassador for Global Criminal Justice, and the US embassy in Liberia – have separately given a boost to Dr. Jallah Barbu, the new executive director of the Office of Liberia’s War and Economic Crimes Courts, by pledging to work with him….

Anthony Stephens
FrontPage Africa

Liberia: Rights Groups Criticize Appointment of Accused Economic Criminal Lewis Brown as UN Ambassador as Liberia Seeks International Support for War Time Justice

Two leading Liberian human rights organizations have condemned President Joseph Boakai’s nomination of Lewis Brown, an accused econimic criminal, as the country’s ambassador to the United Nations just as the country is asking the international community to support a war and economic crimes court….

Anthony Stephens
FrontPage Africa

10,000 Mpox Vaccine Doses on the Way to Liberia

Liberia is set to receive 10,000 doses of the mpox vaccine to help protect the country from the outbreak which has claimed at least 1,000 lives worldwide….

Gloria Wleh
FrontPage Africa

Job Alert: Justice Correspondent, The Gambia

Job Location: Banjul, The Gambia Time: 3 days a week, ongoing Remuneration: This is a part time position with a FTE (full time equivalent) salary in the range of $1000 to $1200 a month (depending on experience) plus benefits. **POSITION FILLED** As The Gambia undertakes the groundbreaking process to hold perpetrators of human rights violations…

Liberia’s New Abortion Law Among Most Liberal in Africa, Faces Hurdle in Senate

Liberia’s new public health law, which was passed by the House of Representatives in 2022, is currently being debated in a special session by the Senate where it is facing a barrage of opposition from abortion opponents. A provision in the bill, which contains a range of other public health elements, would make abortion legal up to 18 weeks of pregnancy as long as it is done by a doctor, the most liberal in Africa….

Tina Mehnpaine
Daily Observer

Siaway MiapueReporting Fellow

Siaway Miapue is an award-winning investigative journalist with seven years of experience. Known for producing compelling stories with a focus on health and environmental reporting, he was honored in 2023 as the recipient of Liberia’s first Young Journalist Award, funded by USAID Media Activities through Internews, a global development media organization. Miapue is currently a contributing…

South Africa Makes Big Improvements in Public Transport. Can Ghana Do the Same?

Here in one of Africa’s biggest cities commuters have all the same needs as they do across the continent. But compared to other bustling cities, including Ghana’s capital, Accra, commuters here have a major advantage: modern public transport. …

Albert Oppong Ansah
Ghana News Agency

Photos: Four Out of Ten Households in Ga South Engage in Open Burning of Waste

The open burning of waste in residential areas affects many people in Ghana as it pollutes the air and limits air quality. This age-old habit remains rampant in many communities across the country….

David Andoh
Joy Online

Dusty Roads Causing Dangerous Respiratory Infections Across Rural Ghana

Ebenezer Danso, a 19-year-old battling severe asthma, recently came perilously close to losing his life….

Jennifer Ambolley
The Chronicle

Liberia: French Court of Appeal upholds Guilty Verdict for Liberian Warlord

An appeal court here has upheld the 2022 conviction of Kunti Kamara, a former commander of the Ulimo rebel group, for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Lofa County during Liberia’s first civil war….

Evelyn Kpadeh Seagbeh
FrontPage Africa

Liberia: Lawyers for Former Rebel Commander Demand French Appeal Court to Acquit

As the appeal of a former commander of the rebel group Ulimo, of his 2022 war crimes conviction enters its final days, defense lawyers for Kunti Kamara called on the three judge panel and nine jurors to overturn the conviction saying there is a lack of evidence Kamara committed the crimes. …

Evelyn Kpadeh Seagbeh
FrontPage Africa

Liberia: French Court Of Appeal Throws Out Rebel Commander Claim he was Underage When Crimes Took Place

The judge in former Liberian warlord, Kunti Kamara’s appeal of his 2022 conviction for war crimes, dealt a blow to Kamara’s case on Monday by striking out his two challenges to the charges….

Evelyn Kpadeh Seagbeh
FrontPage Africa

Liberia: Defense Lawyers Claim Statute of Limitations Means Rebel Cannot be Tried for 1993 War Crimes

Lawyers defending Liberian warlord, Kunti Kamara, in his appeal of his 2022 conviction for war crimes, advanced their second challenge to the case in court Friday, arguing that France’s statute of limitations for such crimes is ten years meaning Kamara should not have been charged in 2018 with the crimes that took place in 1993….

Evelyn Kpadeh Seagbeh
FrontPage Africa

Liberia: Former Liberia TRC Commissioner Gives Emotional Testimony of War Atrocities to French Appeal Court

Massa Washington took many pauses. Her voice trembled with sorrow. When she could not control it, the former commissioner with Liberia’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, sobbed quietly, a testament to the trauma she still carries as a victim of the war and from hearing the testimonies of 22,000 victims of Liberia’s civil wars….

Evelyn Kpadeh Seagbeh
FrontPage Africa

Liberia: Defense Witness Contradicts Rebel Commander’s Claim he Was Not in Civilian Areas in Paris Court

One of former Ulimo rebel commander Kunti Kamara’s own witnesses contradicted his testimony in Kamara’s appeal of his 2022 conviction for war crimes here on Wednesday….

Evelyn Kpadeh Seagbeh
FrontPage Africa